Schema is the collection...

like a living SCRAPBOOK of your memories...

what you've seen, heard, thought, tasted, and felt.

When we read, this "scrapbook" of memories helps us to constantly connect to the text, to the author; this helps us to understand or comprehend what we are reading.

We CONNECT with what we are reading, with the characters, with the author...

I am THINKING... What connections, relationships, associations am I able to notice as I read?

Good readers can relate or are reminded of:

• events or experiences in their own lives
• something they've learned before
• other books, movies, songs, poems, or text
• people, issues, world happenings

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